The mission of VirtusAero is to provide engineering consulting, software development and support for the United States aerospace community with a particular focus and expertise in hypersonics.
At VirtusAero we believe that powerful software should be easy to use. This simple idea drives us to improve every aspect of software that we develop and support. We work hard to incorporate our knowledge and expertise into the tools we build so that researchers and engineers can more quickly and easily find the answers they need. Founded by Dr. Heath Johnson and based in Maple Grove, Minnesota, VirtusAero continually pursues research and development of computational tools for aerospace applications.
bio
Heath Johnson graduated from the University of Minnesota with a Bachelor of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics (1994), a Master of Science (1998) and a Ph.D. (2001) in aerospace engineering. He has held a Senior Research Associate position at the University of Minnesota since 2004 along with a few full-time or part-time industry positions. At the University of Minnesota, Dr. Johnson developed the highly successful and widely used STABL software suite for interactive CFD pre- and post-processing, mean flow solution analysis, and linear and parabolized boundary layer stability analysis. In his position at the University of Minnesota he is currently a co-developer of the US3D unstructured-grid hypersonic-gas CFD code which is becoming widely used as a standard tool for hypersonics research in government labs, industry, and academia. Dr. Johnson is also an author of the STABL3D code which is currently developed and distributed by VirtusAero.
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